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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Luigi Di Savoia, Pico (CHL) 64° 51' 00.0" S 63° 26' 00.0" W Peak
Name ID: 105875 Place ID: 12768

Fue descubierto por la Expedición Antártica Belga, que dirigió el teniente Adrien de Gerlache en 1898 y escalada por miembros de la Expedición Francesa de los años 1903-1905, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot por Luigi di Savoia, Duque de Abruzzi. Pico de 1.435 metros de altura, situado en el extremo NE de sierra Du Fief, al SW de la isla Wiencke, en el archipiélago de Palmer.

Luigi Peak (GBR) 64° 51' 00.0" S 63° 26' 00.0" W Peak
Name ID: 109920 Place ID: 12768

highest peak of Fief Mountains (q.v.), Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, rising to 1415m, was surveyed by FAE, 1903-05, and climbed by P. Dayné (Dayné Peak, q.v.) and J. Jabet (Jabet Peak, q.v.), 7 February 1905; named Sommet Luigi di Savoia after Prince Luigi Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873-1933), Italian Arctic explorer and mountaineer; Commander of the Italian expedition in the Polar Star, 1899-1901, during which a then record latitude of 86°34'N in the Arctic Ocean was reached, 25 April 1900 (Charcot, 1906b, p.472; Matha and Rey, 1911, Pl.4). Sommet Duc des Abruzzes (Charcot, 1908, p.114). Sommet Luigi de Savoie, Pic Luigi de Savoie (Gourdon, 1908, p.19, end map). Pic Louis-de-Savoie (Charcot, 1910, p.50). Louis-de-Savoie Peak (Charcot, [1911b], p.56). Pic Luigi di Savoia (Bongrain, 1914, vue following p.60). Luigi di Savoia Peak (BA, 1916, p.404; [incorrectly inferred to lie on Doumer Island] BA, 1948, upper photograph facing p.198; [correctly shown] BA chart 3213, 6.x.1950; APC, 1955, p.14). Luigi di Savoia (USHO, 1943, p.131). Pico Luigi di Savoia (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.189). Pico Luis de Saboya (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.270; Pierrou, 1970, p.493). Luis de Savoya (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.264b). The peak was resurveyed by FIDS from Norsel and from "Arthur Harbour" in 1955. Pico Luigi de Savoia, as rejected form (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.7). Pico Luis de Savoia (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.7). Luigi Peak (APC, 1960, p.5; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961). Savoia Peak (USBGN, 1965, p.105). Pico Luigi di Savoja (Alarcón and others, 1976, folding map).

Luis de Saboya, pico (ARG) 64° 52' 00.0" S 63° 25' 00.0" W Peak
Name ID: 101424 Place ID: 12768

Savoia Peak (USA) 64° 51' 00.0" S 63° 26' 00.0" W Peak
Name ID: 131228 Place ID: 12768

Peak, 1,415 m, at the NE end of Sierra DuFief, a mountain range in the SW part of Wiencke Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Discovered by the BelgAE under Gerlache, in 1898, and scaled by members of the FrAE under Charcot, 1903-05. Named by Charcot for Luigi di Savoia, Duke of the Abruzzi.

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